https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=353385 Imprisonment in default of payment of fine is distinct from the substantive sentence, and while the statutory fine under the NDPS Act could not be reduced, the court could consider age, poverty, family circumstances and criminal antecedents when fixing the default term. As the appellant was nearly 70 years old, came from a poor background, had no prior criminal history and no adverse circumstance was shown by the prosecution, interference was confined to the default clause. The default imprisonment was reduced from one year to one month, while the conviction and substantive sentence were left intact. en-us Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 07:55:15 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=353385 Imprisonment in default of payment of fine is distinct from the substantive sentence, and while the statutory fine under the NDPS Act could not be reduced, the court could consider age, poverty, family circumstances and criminal antecedents when fixing the default term. As the appellant was nearly 70 years old, came from a poor background, had no prior criminal history and no adverse circumstance was shown by the prosecution, interference was confined to the default clause. The default imprisonment was reduced from one year to one month, while the conviction and substantive sentence were left intact. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=353385